Ted Roche wrote: > On 6/20/07, Jeff Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Is this for real? There is no way for me to unblock a potentially dangerous >> Access .mdb file? Also, am I going to ask a user to zip up the file or ftp >> it to a secure location or rename it? >> > > One Microsoft Way. Love it or leave it. > > If you get your mail through an ISP who retains the email on their > system (like an IMAP server, or a POP server if you've configured it > to delete the mail after a couple of days -- always a good idea), you > could retrieve the mail off the server with a real mail client, like > Thunderbird. > > Even if you're working with an Exchange server, it's possible that it > is set up to retain mail and could be configured to act as a POP or > IMAP server as well as it's native MAPI interface (MAPI Bad!!!) > > It doesn't work retrospectively, though, if you've already removed the > message from the mail server, you may just have to ask the client to > send it again. Perhaps you could use a more trustworthy email client, > like Google or Yahoo! Mail. > > That's bad enough but I just recently had a situation where I wanted a former colleague in Kenya to send me some VFP forms (as SCX/SCT pairs). The ISP there would not allow the SCTs as attachments EVEN INSIDE A ZIP ! ............
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